by Mario Puzo · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408053675
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«Los Borgia» is the historical novel by Mario Puzo, published by Planeta in hardcover (463 pages, in Spanish).
The novel is set in Renaissance Italy and follows Rodrigo Borgia, who will become Pope Alexander VI, and his children Cesare, Juan, Lucrezia and Jofre. It narrates their ambition, alliances and crimes, as well as the high price the family pays to stay at the top of power.
Written with the collaboration of Carol Gino, it is Agustín Vergara's translation of the original The Family. It is part of Booket's Historical Novel collection.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction and for those seeking a portrait of the Italian Renaissance with ambition, intrigue and power struggles.
Mario Francis Puzo was an American author and screenwriter. He wrote crime novels about the Italian-American Mafia and Sicilian Mafia, most notably The Godfather (1969), which he later co-adapted into a film trilogy directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the first film in 1972 and for Part II in 1974. Puzo also wrote the original screenplay for the 1978 Superman film and its 1980 sequel. His final novel, The Family, was released posthumously in 2001.
